That top 25 list really looks like they just decided to put anyone on it. "yeah, I laughed at him before, put him on the list!"

"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

If you watch the aired and uncut versions of Mitch Hedberg's Comedy Central special on his DVD, you can see how the editing makes the show tighter. In the uncut version, some of his jokes aren't that funny and some funny ones go over the heads of the audience, and he sometimes jokes about some jokes not being funny. The aired version mostly uses the actual laughter, but it sounded like they sweetened the laugh track in at least one place.

I wouldn't put Chris Rock at number one, nor would I put Aaron MacGruder (11) on the list at all. The Boondocks has been only so-so for a while now.

There seems to be good reason to have included almost everyone on the EW list, but no Margaret Cho? I've been to lots of stand-up comedy performances, and have never heard an audience laugh the way she makes them laugh. Maybe Chris Rock... not many others.

""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Last night I saw Richard Lewis at the Improv. Hilarious, of course, though the set was quite short. He's 58 years old but still sharp. He mentioned that season 5 of Curb has a lot of stuff with him in it, and that it is quite dark. He took about 5 minutes to come out after the host announced him. The "m" in "Improv" kept coming unstuck from the wall, and he kept pressing it back down, which was pretty funny. And he had trouble with his tape recorder.

A month or two before, I saw a guy named Joey Diaz. He was in the remake of The Longest Yard. I think his entire act was about sex, mostly oral. It got old quick, though we were sitting right in front of the stage, so we had to pretend to enjoy it, which was bizarre.

Why is it that comedians are always so fucked up? I mean, they tell jokes, but they are always the most mentally unstable and hateful people on the planet. They have self destructive behaviour and it's out of control.

Even people who want to get into comedy and haven't nor probably will ever make it are fucked up and awful mental case human beings.

Let's go to a motel. We don't have to do anything -- we could just swim.

Why is it that comedians are always so fucked up? I mean, they tell jokes, but they are always the most mentally unstable and hateful people on the planet. They have self destructive behaviour and it's out of control.

Even people who want to get into comedy and haven't nor probably will ever make it are fucked up and awful mental case human beings.

I went to see Dave Attel last night at the Improv... funny as hell... he was wasted too and made fun of everyone in the audience... it was great.

"Jessica Simpson is single again... isnt that something? We all want some of that... everyone has a Jessica Simpson fantasy. You wanna hear mine? Ok... Jessica baby... please hold your sister Ashley while I kick her on the throat!"

I'm only now looking at that list closely. I like how Amy and David Sedaris are now one person, and that Augusten Burroughs is apparently a comedian now. I've read two of his books and there's humorous stuff in there, but I wouldn't call him a humor writer or comedian.